In the wake of our May Day snowstorm, clear skies the following morning allowed temperatures to plummet and reach very winter-like levels. As the mercury bottomed out, Denver broke one low temperature record and tied another.
As measured at Denver International Airport, the temperature this morning dropped to 19 degrees at 6:41am. This easily breaks the previous record low temperature for May 2 of 22 degrees set in 1954.
Most notably, the 19 degree reading also tied the record for the lowest temperature ever recorded during the month of May since record keeping began in Denver in 1872. We have to go all the way back to May 3, 1907 to find a reading that low during May.
Here in Thornton we were quite cold as well although not quite as much as DIA. Our morning low temperature of 20.7 degrees was seen at 6:00am.
The cold and snowy start to May mimics what was seen during the month of April. Last month Denver recorded its fifth coldest and 11th snowiest April on record.